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COACHES
TIGERS
SHANE MURPHY (South Dakota ’94)
Head Men’s Basketball Coach
Second Season (24-9, 1 year)
The 2010-11 season was one of
transition for the Dakota Wesleyan
University men’s basketball team with a
new head coach, but Shane Murphy
made sure that transition was a
seamless one. The Tigers ended
Murphy’s first season at the helm in the
same spot they had the past four
seasons – at the NAIA Men’s Basketball
National Championships in Point
Lookout, Mo.
Murphy, who enters his second
season with the Tigers in 2011-12, took
over the men’s basketball program after
its most successful season in history,
and he was able to continue that
success. Dakota Wesleyan finished the
year 24-9 and ranked No. 18 in the NAIA
Division II. It finished third in the Great
Plains Athletic Conference and made its
fifth straight trip to the national
tournament, where it upset No. 15
Grace College and advanced to the
Sweet 16 before falling to secondseeded
Northwood College.
The Tigers beat four top-10
opponents in 2010-11. They beat No. 6
Black Hills State University in overtime in
early November, and ended the season
with upsets of No. 8 Briar Cliff and No.
10 Northwestern College. All three wins
were at the World’s Only Corn Palace.
DWU also beat undefeated Xavier
University (La.), which was ranked No. 9
in the NAIA Division I, at a holiday
tournament in Miami, Fla.
Senior Brady Wiebe finished his fouryear
career as one of the most
decorated athletes in DWU men’s
basketball history. He became the
fourth player in DWU men’s basketball
history to score more than 2,000 career
points, and finished his career with
2,052 points and 1,097 rebounds. He
became the second three-time All-
American in men’s basketball history
when he earned All-American First-
Team honors. He was also named the
GPAC’s Player-of-the-Year and earned
All-GPAC First-Team honors.
Wiebe was also named to the Capital
One Academic All-District Team, and
he, along with Mark Mingo and Mitch
Reed, earned NAIA Scholar-Athlete
honors. Seniors Chase Walder and
Larry Swann were both named to the All-
GPAC Second Team.
Murphy took a two-year hiatus from
coaching to work as a recruiter for the
Principal Financial Group in Sioux
Falls, S.D., but before that, he led the
University of Sioux Falls men’s
basketball program to the most
successful stretch in school history.
Murphy was named the 2006 GPAC
Coach-of-the-Year and the 2002 South
Dakota Men’s College Coach-of-the-
Year. He led the Cougars to two
conference titles and two GPAC
Tournament titles in seven years of
coaching. Between 2001 and 2008,
Murphy led his squads to the most wins
in school history (154) with a .662
winning percentage and a singleseason
record of 28 wins in a season.
The Cougars were a constant on the
NAIA Top 25 Coaches’ Poll, and they
were ranked No. 1 at one point in 2007.
Murphy coached USF to four NAIA
Division II National Tournaments in six
seasons, including a trip to the Final
Four in 2004. At USF, he recruited and
coached five All-Americans and 11 All-
GPAC players.
Before coaching at USF, Murphy
played and coached at the University of
South Dakota, his alma mater. He was
an assistant coach for the Coyotes from
1995-2001, and he helped USD to North
Central Conference titles in 1999, 2000
and 2001, and NCAA Division II National
Tournament appearances in 1999 and
2000. He was also a graduate assistant
at USD from 1994-95.
Murphy started his collegiate playing
career at Drake University and
transferred to USD after two seasons.
He led the Coyotes to two conference
and regional titles and was an All-
Conference, All-Region and All-America
Honorable Mention selection in 1994.
He received a Bachelor of Science
degree in business administration with
an emphasis in finance and human
relations from USD in 1994, and he
completed his Master of Business
Administration in 1996, also at USD.
Murphy and his wife, Jill, live in
Mitchell with their daughters, Allison, 15;
and Emma, 11.
CONTACT INFO
• Call 605-995-2875 • Email shmurphy@dwu.edu
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